January Monthly Mini - Blizzard update

NOTE: Due to the weekend blizzard over the weekend, our internet was out until today. It wasn't the 20 plus inches of snow but rather the 50 MPH wind gusts that did us in. I apologize for not updating links and comments until today, but I promise I will get to all of you eventually. I have already seen some great minis!! Do let me know if I have somehow missed someone. 

 At Christmas, my friend Cyndi (Busy Thimble) sent me some delightful “Dutch” fabrics by Christopher Wilson Tate. They are unbelievably delicious. I drooled over them for days before I dared cut into a few of them to use as stones in my “Bird’s Nest Soup” border. 

my favorite green! 

 As I was playing with them, I recalled that years ago I had purchased a package of Dutch print squares from Den Haan and Wagonmakers. I think it was at the Vermont Quilt Festival, but my memory of quilt shows is so faded, I just can’t remember.

So, I dug them out and mixed them in with Cyndi’s gift and voila! I used an old Judie Rothermel cheater square as my center. 

I auditioned a few different borders and possible corner blocks, but decided that I liked it au naturel.

I bound it with a large print toile in keeping with the chintz like feel. 

I’m calling it “Dutch Delight”. Thanks Cyndi!

 Let’s see how the arctic temperatures have spurred our fellow mini makers.

Quilting Babcia (Amity Quilter)

Randy (Barrister’s Block)

Cathy (Big Lake Quilter) 

Cyndi (Busy Thimble)

Grace (City Mouse Quilter)

Barb (Fun with Barb)

Gladi (Gladi’s Quilts)

Shasta (High Road Quilter)

Joy (Joyful Quilter)

Julie (Julie K Quilts)

Kathy (Kathy’s Quilts)

Katy (Katy Quilts)

Sandy (My Material Creations)

Meredithe (Pomegranate and Chintz)

Angie (Quilting on the Crescent)

Barbara (Quilts, Gravestones and Elusive Ancestors)

Janet (Rogue Quilts)

Kyle (Timeless Reflections)

Cynthia (Wabi-Sabi Quilts)